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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Styron say would prevent many suicides?
(a) Strong support from family, friends, and professionsals.
(b) Someone to watch the depressed person at all times.
(c) Immediate hospitalization.
(d) Stronger medicines.

2. What happens to persons in physical pain that is not experienced with mental pain?
(a) A superhuman ability to endure physical pain for a time.
(b) Mental pain doesn't disable one as much as physical pain.
(c) Ones in physical pain receive medicine but don't get better.
(d) Depression hurts worse.

3. What is the phenomenon in which young victims of loss harbor guilt and rage for their entire lives?
(a) Depression.
(b) Lack of bonding.
(c) Incomplete mourning.
(d) Fear and anxiety.

4. What does Styron's psychiatrist recommend to him about the hospital?
(a) To avoid the hospital at all costs.
(b) To go to a hospital in Paris so no one would know.
(c) To plan on staying for a year in the hospital.
(d) To go to the hospital for treatment.

5. What does Styron's psychiatrist do that sends him into a deep depression?
(a) Tells him he was never going to recover.
(b) Tells him he would have to wait ten days before starting his new medicine, and then it would take 6-8 weeks to work.
(c) Tells him to leave his wife if he wanted to get better.
(d) Puts him in the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of people does Styron say is more prone to depression?

2. What is Styron's avoidance of death due to?

3. What is a probable reason that Styron's doctor or family don't suggest hospitalization for him?

4. What is a common occurrence in people planning suicide?

5. In addition to anxiety, what other characteristic of depression becomes manifest?

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